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Female Lawyers Make Up Less Than a Third of Pa. Law Firm Rosters
The percentage of female attorneys working in the Pennsylvania offices of the state's 100 largest law firms has inched up slightly, from 27.8 percent in 2011 to 28.5 percent in 2012, but is still lower than some expected, given years of statistics that show women graduating from law school in numbers equal to or just slightly lower than men.3rd Circuit Curbs Union Leafleting, Reverses Two NLRB Orders
Local Govt. Must OK Groups` Distribution of FliersVocational Trends and Workers' Comp
Have the Caso v. WCAB case and the new Act 88 of the Workers' Compensation Act made the vocational rehabilitation clearer and easier -- or pose more of a headache for practitioners and judges?Vazquez Knocked Off The Ballot, Again
Emilio Vazquez originally lost the right to be on the November ballot for the state House seat for the 179th District. Then Philadelphia Common Pleas Court President Judge C. Darnell Jones said he, in fact, won the May primary.ABA to Examine Career Paths of Minority Women Lawyers
Not much information has been compiled about the attrition rate of minority women associates at large law firms. But what little is known is startling: The National Association of Law Placement says that almost 100 percent of women associates of color leave their original law firms within eight years, compared with attrition rates of 73.3 percent for all associates, 74.6 percent for white women associates and 82.1 percent for male associates of color.Arbitrator Sides With School District in Teachers' Pay Dispute
An arbitrator's finding in favor of the School District of Philadelphia should wind up saving the financially strapped system more than $30 million in a pay dispute with the city's teachers' union. The union claimed that the district altered its payment methods in such a way that the majority of its employees had their salaries reduced. The district pointed out that because of an aberration in the pay system, employees would receive their final paychecks for this school year at the start of the next year.Psychological Injuries Still Relevant in Workers' Comp
A long line of appellate court decisions have caused many practitioners to ignore claimaints' work-related psychological injuries. But claimants can still benefit from such claims. Counsel representing individuals with symptoms of psychological injuries such as depression and/or anxiety should seriously evaluate the merits of a claim petition or a petition to review a notice of compensation payable to add the psychic diagnosis to a previously accepted physical injury.Protective Order Issued for World Umpires Association Financials
Playing referee in a dispute between the lawyers representing a group of baseball umpires and its new union, a federal judge in Philadelphia has issued a strict protective order requiring the plaintiffs not to use any financial information they receive from the union for any purpose other than the litigation. The suit focuses on the union's requirement that all umpires must either be members or pay it a "financial core fee."State AI Legislation Is on the Move in 2024
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